Job Description
We are looking for a full-time & permanent London Sales & Relationship Manager. An outgoing and extrovert self-starter with a can-do attitude and drive to help grow our ethical soft drinks brand across London.
Squeezed from fresh fruits without squeezing our growers, Lemonaid and ChariTea started as a Social Enterprise 13 years ago in Germany, with the aim to support the parts of the world frequently disadvantaged in the global economy. Our soft drinks are made from Organic and Fairtrade certified ingredients, sourced from small-farming cooperatives. For every bottle sold, 5p go to the Lemonaid & ChariTea Foundation which supports people and communities in the countries where our ingredients are grown, with over £7 million raised to date.
The Role
You will own half of London and surrounding territory with responsibility for the growth and account management of coffee shops, restaurants, bars, night clubs and independent retailers. From increasing in-store visibility to business development by winning new stockists, you’ll have a wide range of responsibility and freedom in masterminding and executing our field sales strategy. You will join our UK sales and marketing team, whilst being part of a fast-growing international social business with offices across Europe and 100+ employees globally.
What the role offers you:
- Independent place of work - you organise and execute your own trips Mon-Fri to visit clients across London, with options to do the admin side of your job from home, our Southwark office, or your favourite coffee shop
- Access to a shared pool car during your work hours and an Oyster card for your work trips (clean UK driving licence required, min 1 year old)
- 26 - 30 days’ holiday a year (plus public holidays!)
- Annual team gatherings in one of our Global Markets - think German castles or French beachside
- Project trips to our farming cooperatives and project partners in the Global South
- Monthly Team Socials in London
- Private Medical Insurance (incl. dental, optical & mental health), co-paid by the company
- Pension Scheme
- OTE pay of £30,800 (Fixed salary of £26k + monthly sales bonus of up to £9.6k per year)
What we are looking for:
- Excellent and confident communicator with great interpersonal skills
- Infectious enthusiasm, switched-on and authentic
- Independent and autonomous as you will be in the field 80% of the week
- Resilient – you don’t take ‘no’ for an answer and have a history of overcoming challenges
- A proactive, extrovert approach and an entrepreneurial attitude
- Ideally previous experience in sales, business development or customer-facing roles within the hospitality or music industry
Start date:
As soon as possible
We look forward to hearing from you.
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We are the Social Enterprise behind Lemonaid and ChariTea soft drinks in the UK. All our ingredients are organic certified and sourced directly from Fairtrade co-operatives. But it’s not just the desire to slake your thirst with delicious soft drinks that drives us. We started the Lemonaid & ChariTea project to incite and shape the process of social change.
About us
Why did we start Lemonaid & ChariTea? It’s pretty simple: we want to play our part in making a fairer world, through a Fairtrade product that supports charitable initiatives in our farmers’ local communities. Obviously, we don’t want you to drink our iced teas and soft drinks just because they’re for a good cause, but because they taste fantastic. In 2008, we quit the day jobs and got going, brewing tea after tea in our kitchen, adding a splash of fresh juice here, a dash of agave syrup there. We got some friends together to pick out the best – natural drinks which simply hadn’t been around until that point. Pure good taste, just like homemade.
Our values
Lemonaid and ChariTea drinks were born out of a desire to give back. It's not about simply donating money to good causes - although we are on board with this, too. Our mission is to empower people so that they can help themselves. We work directly with farming co-operatives in the Global South and pay higher prices for our raw ingredients to support fair and dignified farming.
Beyond Fairtrade for every bottle sold 5p go to the Lemonaid & ChariTea Foundation which supports people and communities to help themselves, with over £7 million raised to date. Focusing on parts of the world frequently disadvantaged in the global economy, the Foundation supports local initiatives which work to improve social, economic and ecological structures.
That's why we believe: Drinking helps.
What is our company culture like?
In the UK, we are a small, enthusiastic team of 6. We're an ambitious, energetic lot, all big believers in our mission and dedicated to making a difference.
Together with our international colleagues from our offices in France, Denmark, Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland and Germany, we travel to our Foundation's project regions every year. Escaping the city life, we shoulder our backpacks and head off to Sri Lanka, India, Mexico or South Africa to work with our farmers on their fields and visit the local NGOs we support. Experiencing life in the growing regions first-hand and understanding the impact Fairtrade and sustainable agriculture have on local communities, is what all unites us in working for this unique social business.